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> I've seen a lot of bloat, corruption, & massive inefficiency. Been working for more than 20 years in corporations and I've seen the same.

> western demands that encroached on Russia's sphere of influence What a horribly reductive and downright insulting view of Eastern European politics. > independent and united Euro…

It's called Dingleberries

> The inherently violent nature of war So now it's a war? It's no longer a special military operation by law? Bro, you should watch yourself, you can go to prison for using the wro…

https://www.reuters.com/world/warehouse-russian-online-retai... It seems Dingleberries failed to elect a new pope. Again.

Oh man, this nostalgia hit me hard. I was an avid listener to both This Week in Tech and Cranky Geeks. I remember I was watching (!!!) Cranky Geeks on my ipod when I was bedridden …

@dang This user is a known troll spreading Russian disinformation and aggravating users, that's pretty much all their contributions on the forum. They are at the second account (fi…

There's a spectrum of 'broken' and AI made it worse

> The money they're burning is not yours or mine. They're institutional investor money. So, again, who cares? This is not happening in a vacuum. A lot of index funds and retirement…

Because it's futile. This person was banned before, this is their new account.

> If AI is going to 10x our productivity across the board, that means that I should be able to produce the same amount of output by midday on Monday that, in the before times, woul…

> I am aware of all the code being written. Define 'aware'. The volume of code for a feature/system to make it worth using a more complex workflow such as this one, is definitely l…

> I'm a happy TurboTax customer for over 25 years. I've been using TurboTax for about 20 years now and I am not happy. I hate it with a passion, it has more dark patterns than even…

Don't bother, you are replying to a notorious Russian troll

> https://knowledge.workspace.google.com/admin/gemini/ai-ultra... It's been a while since I visited any google pages and I'm shocked how insipid and soulless their UX still is.

I quit smoking a long time ago but if there's one thing I'm missing / craving is a hot cup of coffee with two cigarettes on an empty stomach during cold winter mornings... Fuuuuck.…

Not sure why they classified this language as 'old English'. It's so far removed (from all perspectives including a fundamentally different grammatical system) from modern or even …

> I'm no fun of Stalin I would argue for the generality of this characterization

> I don't even think I've seen a single on here in Russia in the 90s. I'm not surprised, considering they were expensive. That doesn't mean they weren't popular in the west.

I own a kindle and use it daily. I just borrow all my ebooks from public libraries. I buy the books I want to keep, in physical form.

Please don't 'buy' digital items from Amazon, because you won't actually own them. Pay extra, support your local bookshop and get a physical copy which you will actually own.

There are a lot of defenders of capital on hn, which is expected, that's totally fine. But I think we should all have a bit of admiration for someone who risked her life to shed li…

> The author didnt disclose any illegal activities in her book. And she didnt claim whistleblower status. Both statements are factually incorrect. > Wynn-William filed a whistleblo…

The legal system makes illegal activities part of the public record.

> "non-disparagement" clause Do you believe a civil contract should be able to stop a person from disclosing potential illegal activities?